Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

City University of New York

Aramco Services Company

Baker Hughes Corporation

Other

Schlumberger Technology Corpoation

Bj Services, LLC

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Leiming Li

Feng Liang

Lijun Lin

Ghaithan Al-Muntasheri

B Raghava Reddy

Syed Afaq Ali

Carlos Abad

Liang Xin Xu

Curtis L Boney

Jia Zhou

Hong Sun

Paul R Howard

Tao Chen

Qi Qu

Scott Gregory Nelson

Katherine Leigh Hull

Younane N Abousleiman

James William Ogle

David J Jacobi

Yanhui Han

Mathew M Samuel

Xiaolan Wang

George John

Chunli Li

Sehmus Ozden

Ghaithan Muntasheri

Todd Allen Collier

Vidyasagar Adiyala

Hejian Sun

Baudel William Quintero

Rajesh Kumar Saini

Richard Donald Hutchins

Mohammed Abdullah Bataweel

Michael D Parris

Amy J Cairns

Jilin Jay Zhang

Bitao Lai

Belgin Baser

Oscar Bustos

Magnus Legemah

Toan Bui

Johnathan Scott Hazlewood

Philip D Nguyen

D V Satyanarayana Gupta

Loan K Vo

Harold Dean Brannon

Francois M Auzerais

Kevin W England

Zhiwei Yue

Dong Shen

Paul S Carman

Andrey Mirakyan

Philippe Prince

Harold Gene Hudson

Arthur Milne

Scot Bodnar

Shawn Rimassa

Ahmed M Gomaa

Thomas Ray Starks, Ii

Michael Guerin

Ghaithan A Al-Muntasheri

Emilio Jose Miquilena

Sudhir Shenoy

Sumitra Mukhopadhyay

Scott Harris Bodnar

Roberto Arangath

Pedro Saldungaray

Chucks I Ezeokonkwo

Ksenia Eliseeva

Juliet Edwena Juel

Cody Hanzik

James Ogle

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for treating a geologic formation that includes providing a hydraulic fracture model, providing a first value representative of a volume of kerogen breaker in a fracturing fluid, determining a discrete fracture network (DFN) based on the hydraulic fracture model and the first value, determining a geomechanical model based on the DFN and a reservoir model based on the DFN, determining a hydrocarbon production volume based on the geomechanical model and the reservoir model, adjusting the first value based on the hydrocarbon production volume, and adjusting a volume of kerogen breaker in the fracturing fluid to a hydrocarbon reservoir based on the adjusted first value.

Hydraulic fracturing in kerogen-rich unconventional formations

Methods and systems for treating mined sand to remove an impurity in accordance with the disclosure. An example method mined sand provides mined sand containing the impurity, contacting the mined sand with an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an ethoxylated alcohol and a sulfonic acid derivative, and drying the mined sand; wherein at least a portion of the impurity is removed from the dried mined sand after contact of the mined sand with the aqueous treatment fluid.

Removal of sand impurities in wet processing

A fracturing fluid can include: a base fluid, wherein the base fluid comprises water; proppant; a friction reducer; and a friction reducer enhancer, wherein the friction reducer enhancer is a surfactant. The friction reducer enhancer can be in a concentration greater than or equal to a critical micelle concentration. Methods of fracturing a subterranean formation can include introducing the fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation. The friction reducer enhancer can increase the hydration rate of the friction reducer, whereby friction reduction of the fracturing fluid can occur much faster than without the friction reducer enhancer.

Enhanced friction reducers for water-based fracturing fluids

A slickwater fracturing fluid that includes a brine with dissolved solids, an anionic friction reducing additive, a polysaccharide, and a nanomaterial that includes nanoparticles with an average particle size between about 1 nm and about 500 nm. The polysaccharide and the anionic friction reducing additive synergistically reduce friction of the slickwater fracturing fluid so as to increase an injection rate of the slickwater fracturing fluid. Also, the polysaccharide, the anionic friction reducing additive, and the nanomaterial synergistically provide viscosity to the slickwater fracturing fluid so as to increase proppant transport capability. Also described is a method of fracturing a subterranean formation by pumping the slickwater fracturing fluid into a borehole and fracturing the subterranean formation with the slickwater fracturing fluid.

Synergistic enhancement of slickwater fracturing fluids

A method of servicing a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, including placing into the wellbore a wellbore servicing fluid including a friction reducer, an iron control agent, and an aqueous fluid. The iron control agent can include a compound according to Structure I, a salt of Structure I, or combinations thereof: wherein R, R, R, R, Rand Rare defined as set forth in the specification. The methods in this disclosure can be used for iron mitigation.

Methods of making and using a wellbore servicing fluid for iron mitigation

A method of preparing a fracturing fluid comprising: preparing or providing an aqueous fluid containing iron ions; screening a plurality of friction reducers against the aqueous fluid wherein the plurality of friction reducers are anionic, cationic, nonionic, amphoteric, or combinations thereof; selecting at least one friction reducer from the plurality of friction reducers based at least in part on the step of screening; and preparing a fracturing fluid including the at least one friction reducer.

Screening method for friction reducer precipitation

a method of treating aqueous wellbore fluids, comprising (a) converting one or more multivalent cations in a multivalent cation-containing aqueous fluid to form a mixture comprising one or more insoluble compounds and a treated aqueous fluid, (b) separating the treated aqueous fluid from the one or more insoluble compounds, and (c) contacting the treated aqueous fluid with a sulfide-containing aqueous fluid to form a compatibilized aqueous fluid, wherein the multivalent cation-containing aqueous fluid, the sulfide-containing aqueous fluid, or both were recovered from wellbores prior to (c).

Methods of improving compatibility of oilfield produced water from different sources

A method may include: preparing or providing an aqueous fluid containing iron ions; screening at least one iron control agent against the aqueous fluid; selecting at least one iron control agent and iron control agent concentration based at least in part on the step of screening; and preparing a fracturing fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and the at least one iron control agent wherein a concentration of the iron control agent in the fracturing fluid is greater than or equal to the selected iron control agent concentration.

Mitigation of friction reducer precipitation

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of producing a viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fluid, the VES fluid comprising desulfated seawater. The method of producing the VES fluid comprises adding an alkaline earth metal halide to seawater to produce a sulfate precipitate. The method further comprises removing the sulfate precipitate to produce the desulfated water. The method further comprises adding a VES and one or more of a nanoparticle viscosity modifier or a polymeric modifier to the desulfated seawater. Other embodiments are directed to VES fluids that maintain a viscosity greater than 10 cP at temperatures above 250&#xb0; F.

Methods for producing seawater based, high temperature viscoelastic surfactant fluids with low scaling tendency

Methods and compositions for treating aqueous fluids that may be included in treatment fluids that are used for treating a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the methods include: providing a water-based friction reducing additive that includes an aqueous base fluid, a salt, a first friction reducing polymer, and a suspension agent; introducing the water-based friction reducing additive into a treatment fluid; and introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to create or enhance one or more fractures within the subterranean formation.

Water-based friction reducing additives

A fracturing fluid including a mixture of an aqueous terpolymer composition including a terpolymer, an additive, and crosslinker. The terpolymer includes 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, acrylamide, and acrylic acid monomer units, or a salt thereof. The additive includes a sugar alcohol or a derivative thereof, and the crosslinker includes a metal. The weight ratio of the metal to the terpolymer is in a range of 0.01 to 0.16, and a concentration of the additive is in a range of 0.001 wt. % to 10 wt. % of the fracturing fluid. Treating a subterranean formation includes introducing the fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation, and crosslinking the fracturing fluid in the subterranean formation to yield a crosslinked fracturing fluid. The crosslinked fracturing fluid mitigates damage caused by substantial amounts of total dissolved solids or significant water hardness.

Enhanced high temperature crosslinked fracturing fluids

Embodiments provide methods and compositions for mitigating water production for hydrocarbon recovery. According to an embodiment, the method involves a treatment fluid composition. The treatment fluid composition includes a base liquid, a gelling agent, and a crosslinking agent. The treatment fluid composition is introduced downhole where it is positioned in a high permeability streak adjacent to a wellbore. After crosslinking, the treatment fluid composition blocks water in the high permeability streak from penetrating into the wellbore.

Methods and compositions for mitigating water production

A method for hydraulic fracturing of a subterranean formation includes injecting an oil-based fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation through a well. The method also includes injecting a second fracturing fluid, for example a water-based fracturing fluid, into the subterranean formation through the well after completion of the injection of the oil-based fracturing fluid.

Hydraulic fracturing using multiple fracturing fluids sequentially

A system and method for hydraulic fracturing including mixing seawater with an additive to precipitate sulfate from the seawater and mixing a flocculating agent with the seawater to agglomerate the sulfate precipitates.

Treating seawater for hydrocarbon production

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